Erica 🐈💨 @erica@octodon.social

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What to do when the police knock on your door:

Say “No, you cannot come in. I do not consent to a search.”

Say “No, I will not answer your questions.”

Don't help cops. Not even to find a lost puppy.

https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/24/when-the-police-knock-on-your-door-your-rights-and-options-a-legal-guide-and-poster

Juneteenth celebrates the announcement of the end of slavery in the confederacy (june 19, 1865: 2 years after the emancipation proclamation).

about 6 months later, the 13th amendment is ratified, which abolished slavery-- except as a form of punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and barks like a pig, I don't know what to tell you but I think it's a pig.

I look up at the night sky.
"That's a pretty universe, God. You are wearing it well."
"Thanks," I hear in a faint whisper, "it has pockets."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Why hello there 🐱🐱🐱

let's burn 'em all down.

#cats

Free Lolita, the Killer Whale!

She’s the only freeborn orca still in captivity in the US, and her birth pod—and even her mother—are still living in the wild

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/free-lolita-the-killer-whale/

This is totally random but not really: if you change your name or your pronouns and people in your life don't want to comply and make jokes, they are trash cans and you don't deserve it. 💖

sunday funday

It's not JUST Starbucks at fault here. It's the institutional racism/bigotry that has the default setting for seeing brown/black people as fear or distrust.

Closing down that one Starbucks (which will likely happen b/c of boycotts) isn't going to change the larger picture. Those people lose their jobs and the corporation keeps on keeping on.

It's that people distrust and fear people of colour to this degree, that just sitting is a fucking crime.

People seem a little confuse about responsibility to fight oppression.

If there is a system that oppresses and kills people for YOUR benefit, you are morally obligated to oppose it. Even if you yourself did not commit a crime, it is for YOU.

Yes, I'm talking to you, white people, men, cis people, heterosexual people, rich people. We ALL are *morally obligated* to tear apart a system that hurts other people for our benefit.